Shingle strip



June 13, 1933. A. E. F. MOONE 5 SHINGLE STRIP Filed March 21, 1930 Patented June 13, 1933 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ALBERT E. F. MOONE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE LEHON COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS BEING-LE STRIP Application filed March 21, 1930. Serial No. 437,807.

This invention relates to prepared roofing and particularly to shingle strips.

It is the purpose of my invention to produce a strip which will present a pleasing and novel appearance on the roof. It is also a purpose of this invention to produce a shingle strip which may be applied with few nails and little labor.

Further object of the invention Will be clear from the following disclosure taken in conjunction with the drawing in which Fig. 1 represents the appearance of my novel roofing as applied to a roof; and

Fig. 2 illustrates a shingle strip in its usual appearance as an article of trade.

The shingle strip is made by cutting a sheet of prepared roofing along an irregular line, the butts thus formed on either half of the roofing strip corresponding to the ,indenture on the other half.

With reference to Fig. 2, the body portion is generally indicated by 13; the butts by 14, 14, 14..

It will be noticed that the butts as projecting from the body portion are bounded by seven straight lines, two of which 16 and 23, forming the root of the butt, depart at an acute angle from the projected boundary 15, 15 of the body portion. The gussets 27-27 thus formed make the butt stronger and more resistant to turning by wind or weather. However, a very stumpy appearance is produced unless another angle immediately contrasts therewith. The lines 22 and 17, therefore, form obtuse angles with the lines 16 and 23. This pair of lines being longer than any others in the boundary, and converging at the remote point 25, carry the eye downwards and thus produce the appearance of a very long butt. the lines 16 and 23, when projected, intersect at 24; and the lines 18 and 21, parallel respectively to 16 and 23, meet, when projected, at 26.

It will be noticed that the points 24: and 26 lie in the immediate vicinity of the terminal line 19 of the butt. All three points lie along the axis of the butt.

With reference to Fig. 1, a portion of a roof is shown with the roofing elements in place. The four elements 9, 10, 11 and 12 then cooperate to form the patterns 10, 11, 10, 11, the numbers in the exposed areas serving to identify the particular roofing elements involved. Four nails only are required to each strip, the position of which is indicated by 28, Fig. 1.

It will thus be apparent that the stumpy appearance common to shingles possessing a reinforced butt is avoided and that the improved shingle will produce a novel and pleasing roof.

What I claim, therefore, is:

In a roofing element, a body portion and a butt portion, the outer marginal edge of said butt portion being parallel with said body portion and the side marginal edges of said butt portion being defined by inner, intermediate and outer sets of converging lines, the inner set of lines converging to a point within the confines of said butt portion but adjacent to theend margin thereof, the intermediate set converging to a point adjacent to but outwardly of the outer marginal edge of said butt portion and the outer set converging to a point forwardly of the converging point of the intermediate set.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

ALBERT E. F. MOONE.

On the other hand, 

